All the smartest people in the world are setting themselves up for more Brexit- and Trump-style shock and disappointment, this time in France.

Last night, Western European globalists and experts breathed a collective sigh of relief as pro-EU, anti-Brexit, pro-immigration centrist Emmanuel Macron edged out the National Front’s Trump-esque Marine Le Pen for a narrow first-place finish in the French presidential race, roughly 23 percent to 22 percent. The pair will face off in a May 7 runoff election, which “everyone” naturally expects Le Pen to lose.

Benoit Hamon of the long-established center-left French Socialist Party, along with profoundly unpopular current President Francois Hollande are already urging that all decent and reasonable people of France unite behind Macron, who is the consummate insider’s outsider, a self-styled independent former minister of the economy with support from all sides of the establishment elite.

Conventional wisdom is that Le Pen, like her father before her, is far too extreme and unpalatable to stand a chance in the broader runoff election, especially when all the respected economic and political figures will be lined up against her. Sound familiar?

Traditional Republicans, especially women, in the American suburbs were sure to abandon Trump in droves and vote for Hillary, weren’t they? Bernie Sanders supporters in the Rust Belt would rally around Hillary when the time came, right? We all know how that turned out.

As he conceded his embarrassing fifth place finish last night, Hamon had this to say: “The left is not dead.” That may be true, but it is becoming less and less relevant in the modern political climate where traditional party labels are being discarded for new, unconventional alliances. The left-wing counterpart to Le Pen, redistribitionist, populist Jean-Luc Melenchon, finished within 5 points of both Macron and Le Pen, and campaigned against the EU, trade deals and globalization. His legions of supporters are unlikely to enthusiastically fall in with Macron’s 1-percenter campaign.

And then there are the supporters of conservative Republican Francois Fillon, who also took nearly 20 percent of the vote last night. Will they quietly go from supporting Fillon’s policy of crackdowns on radical Islam to backing Macron’s dream of open borders?

Doubtful. Terrorism is an unwelcome new normal in France these days and its most defiant foe is Marie Le Pen.